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26 ‘Come here, stranger, prepare the table;
    let me eat what you have there.’
27 ‘Be off, stranger, for an honoured guest is here;
    my brother has come for a visit, and I need the guest-room.’
28 It is hard for a sensitive person to bear
    scolding about lodging[a] and the insults of the moneylender.

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  1. Sirach 29:28 Or scolding from the household

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